Residents in Victoria’s west have been urged to watch and act as bushfires continue raging through parts of the state, with emergency services warning it may be too late to leave some areas.

As uncontrolled blazes have turned large swaths of Los Angeles into hellscapes the last week, Associated Press photographers have been on the frontlines. They have captured burning so intense that it ...

Alyce McFadden, a reporting fellow on The Times’s Metro desk, writes about what covering a disaster for the first time brought home to her.